Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have for individuals and organisations to make, and have properly acknowledged, submissions to the Child Poverty Taskforce.

Tackling Child Poverty: Developing Our Strategy sets out the approach to building expertise into the child poverty strategy from across and outside Government.

This includes: engagement directly with the Child Poverty Ministerial Taskforce across the Strategy’s four core themes; working with leading organisations, charities and campaigners with child poverty expertise, such as Save the Children, IPPR, Citizens Advice, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo’s, and the National Children’s Bureau, who are bringing together their networks through roundtables or other forums to discuss the drivers and experience of child poverty, and what action is needed to reduce it; and work to hear directly from parents, carers and children.

This engagement is in addition to the large existing evidence base on child poverty in the UK and internationally, which the Taskforce is building understanding from.

As set out in the October publication referenced above, organisations and individuals are also welcome to submit specific evidence to childpoverty.secretariat@cabinetoffice.gov.uk.